Well, good morning. Welcome to
our continuing Bible study in the book of Luke. We're in chapter
12. And welcome to those that are participating
by Zoom and to those out there. sermon audio land glad to have
you with us today we're in chapter 12 and and to kind of keep things
in the perspective here where jesus is addressing his disciples
and And remember he'd had dinner with the Pharisees and he said
a lot of bad things to them. He said, you, woe to you Pharisees,
you hypocrites. And we'd spent some time looking
at what that word meant and how they they portrayed themselves
on the outside as being morally superior and religious and righteous
by their works of keeping the law and everything. And the Lord
says, you know, you look white on the outside, you look beautiful
like a whited sepulcher on the outside, but inside you're full
of dead men's bones. And you know, if you think about
his disciples, they're going, oh, those guys are the, in charge. Those guys are powerful. We should be a little careful
about those. And he says, fear not. Fear not those that can
kill the body. And he says, you should fear
the one that has the power to cast you into hell. And he says,
you know what? You guys, you're worth a lot. You're valuable. The hairs on
your head are numbered. And so that takes us up to verse
8 where we are today as he's continuing this discussion with
his disciples. And really if we keep in kind
of our mind that he's talking to them about potentially facing
their accusers for the faith, That's kind of the context here,
but actually these things are they're applicable to you know
every day for the church there there is valid now as they were
then and So in verse 80 says also In addition to the very
hairs of your head being numbered, and you're more valuable than
many sparrows, also I say unto you, whosoever shall confess
me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before
the angels of God. But he that denieth me before
men shall be denied before the angels of God." And remember
there was a denier among them. There was Judas in John. He says, have not I chosen you
and one of you is a devil? And I'm sure Judas was going,
who, me? And he knew very well that that
was the case there. He that denieth me before men
shall be denied before the angels of God. And whosoever shall speak
a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But
unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost, it shall not
be forgiven. And you know, it kind of gives
us something to think about to those that are the accusers that
You know, they denied the very Christ and they were entrenched
in the works, keeping the law. He says, whosoever blasphemeth
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. And when, it's
not if, but he says, and when they bring you into the synagogues
and unto the magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how
or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say. for the
Holy Ghost shall teach you in that same hour what you ought
to say." And we were talking about that this morning, and
we were contemplating that man that the Lord healed that was
blind, and the religious folks took exception to that, and they
took him in and questioned him and said, by what means can you
Can you see? And he says, I don't know, but
I know this. I know one thing. Whereas before
I was blind, now I see. And then of course, again, as
Norm pointed out, the Lord came and spoke to him. little bit
later and so here we have today this this section that we're
going to look at from verse 8 through 12 and and boy there's just so
much here that that I don't know that we'll get through the whole
thing today but we'll go as far as we can go
but There's a few key words that we should maybe pay attention
to here in these scriptures. This word deny and denieth are
key and also the word confess and we find those are used in
a lot in the scripture regarding the Lord. There's quite a bit written,
actually, in the scriptures. We're not going to look at all
of them today. We're just going to look at a sampling that gives
us the thought and the context of it. You know, all the apostles wrote
about those that deny the Lord that they were up against. And
in their minds, they weren't doing that. They were zealous
toward God and zealous in what they believed, but they were
wrong. They had a zeal, but not according to knowledge. And so
here it says, Also I say unto you, whosoever shall confess
me before men." Oh boy, you know, that just gets turned into a
works for salvation thing right off the bat in many religious
circles. But, you know, one of the verses
that they use, and we'll look at that here, if you want to
turn over to Romans chapter 10, verse 8 through 10, It gives us that usage, and then
it explains it right afterwards. It's so plain in how it can be
twisted to the usage that it's been given. It's just amazing.
But in Romans 10, verse 8, it says, But what saith it? The
word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That
is the word of faith which we preach, the gospel. And there's
these two elements, the mouth and the heart. That, in verse
nine, says that, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. So it kind of puts it in a cause
and effect kind of a situation, which it really is not. But it's turned into a kind of
a well repeat after me. If you confess with the mouth,
if you say actually the Lord Jesus, and then say that you
believe, then he's obligated to save you. but in verse 10 it says for and
this explains it for with the heart man believeth in regards
to righteousness he believes that somehow the Lord has imputed
to him righteousness he's not acquired it by himself but he
he believes under the righteousness and With the mouth, confession
is made unto salvation or in regards to salvation or about
salvation. It's kind of a confession of
I was blind, but now I see. I don't know how that happened.
I didn't do anything. I woke up this morning, I couldn't
see anything. But now, through some supernatural operation by
the Lord, I can see. So, that's what we're looking
at here. Whosoever shall confess me, before
men, him shall the son of man also confess before the angels.
And also it says, but he that denieth me before men shall be
denied before the angels of God. So are the terms deny and denieth
really absolute? Or do we have to look at them
in a spiritual context as well, just as we did these others?
The Lord looked Peter in the eye and he said, before the cock
crows twice, you will deny me three times. So what does that
say? And you know that if you go over
to Matthew's chapter 26, when they arrested Jesus, all the
disciples forsook him and fled. So what about them? So what does
that mean? So are these terms absolute or
are they to be viewed in context with scripture in their very
definition? In verse 8, let's look at this
word confess first. Also I say unto you, whosoever
shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of Man also
confess before the angels of God. And this is also used in
1 John chapter 4. Let's go over there to 1 John
chapter 4 and read that one verse there. First John 4 to hereby know ye
the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. every spirit that confesses not
that Jesus Christ is not come in the flesh is not of God and
this is the spirit of Antichrist or all those that are against
Christ wherein you have heard that it should come and even
now already is in the world and he says you are as opposed to
those anti-Jesus, anti-Christ. You are of God, little children,
and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you
than he that is in the world. They speak of the world, they
are of the world, and that's all they can talk about. They
are of the world, therefore speak they of the world. That's what
they know, that's what they can speak to. They can't speak to
spiritual things, because they're spiritually discerned, and until
you're born again, you can't know them, or understand them,
or see them. So, whosoever shall confess me
before men, Remember that he's speaking to
them in the context of this kind of persecution that's by these
hypocrites. And this word confesses, homologeo,
and it's a compound word that means to assent, to agree, to
express acceptance, covenant, to acknowledge, to profess. So it gives us the example, confession
is made and it involves giving thanks. And so it's an acknowledgment
of something. It's an agreement with something.
It's an assent that we fully accept. And what that is, is
the gospel of Christ dying for his people. So, it's not just
a confession of the name of Jesus, it's a confession of what he
did and who he is and what he's done for us. And it's an agreement
with him. And we say, we agree. If it wasn't for grace, we would
just be charcoal. We would just not be here. So, it also has the, in my vines
expository dictionary, it gives the understanding as a verb meaning
to speak the same thing. Logio is the word to speak and
homo is the same. So it means to speak the same
thing. How can we speak the same thing
if we're not in agreement, if we're not in acceptance, if we're
not in acknowledgment that Christ is salvation, total acceptance,
total reliance on Him for salvation? How can we speak the same thing
if we don't really believe the same thing? So that's to be considered
here. And in the context of our verse,
it has special significance, namely to do this in a public
way so that we're like that blind man. He was in a public situation
and they asked him, how is it that you see because
you've been blind begging down there by the gate for as long
as we can remember and he says, well I know that I didn't do
it. I know one thing, whereas I was blind, now I see." So, we find that same usage that
we just read there in Romans chapter 10 verse 9, "...if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ." Well,
that really means if we agree, if we assent, if we acknowledge who he is and
why he came and what he did. And so we're obliged to speak
the same thing. And, you know, that's what Paul
wrote in 1 Corinthians. If you turn over to 1 Corinthians
15, chapter 15, verse 1, Moreover brethren, I declare
unto you the gospel which I preached unto you which also you have
received and wherein you stand By which also you are saved If
you keep in memory what I preached sent you unless you have believed
in vain for I delivered unto you first of all That which I
also received how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures so he said, I'm giving you the same thing that
I got straight from Jesus, and it's the same thing that I got
straight from the Old Testament. It's the same. In 1 Corinthians
1, verse 10, he admonishes these Corinthians at the very beginning
of this epistle. He says, Now I beseech you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
same thing. and that there be no divisions
among you, but that you be perfectly joined in the same mind and in
the same judgment. And that just has to do with
the gospel. One of you cannot be saying, well, you need grace
to be saved, and another one can't be saying, well, yeah,
but it's partly works. Or another one can say, it's
totally by works, by keeping, I've kept the law from my youth
up. Some of them said, well, I know
you're saved by grace, but you still need to be circumcised
as a work towards salvation. And he says, you all have to
speak the same thing. You all have to speak the same
gospel of grace. so simple and yet so complete. And the object and person we
are to speak the same thing about is none other than the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself who came to save His people from our sins. And
that's what He wrote in verse 3 of chapter 15. Christ died for our sins according
to the scripture. Christ died for our sins. We
can't do that for ourselves. That was the penalty that had
to be meted out. That was the penalty that had
to be met. in order to satisfy the justice of God, that he could
be, as Pastor Bill said the other night, the just and the justifier,
that satisfied the righteousness of the Father. I think he referred there to
Isaiah 53, he shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.
and by his sacrifice he'll justify many. So we have that. So to speak, to confess, whosoever
shall confess me before men. So we have to be in agreement
about the gospel. If thou shall speak the same
thing, agree, the Lord Jesus. Believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead that shall be saved. You know,
we last in our last lesson we we took a look over an axe where
the Apostles had healed a Person and he said well, what do we
do? We but he's done a notable miracle
and we can't deny that But what did they tell those guys? Don't
do any more miracles. They didn't say that. They said,
we command you that you speak no more in the name of this Jesus
person that we don't believe in. That's what they commanded
them not to do. And they said, huh, that's not
happening. And so they confessed the Lord
Jesus Christ there. They said it's by his power that
we made this man whole. not anything we did. And so, we speak the same thing, we believe in the heart that God raised
Him from the dead. And in Romans, we're looking
here at Romans, back as we mentioned in Romans chapter 10 verse 9,
that if thou shalt speak the same thing, if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, if thou shall speak the same
thing." Jesus didn't go around saying, You need to keep the law. He
said, you know, if you're going to live by the law, you're going
to die by the law. So that was not what he said. And they would not be in agreement
with that. If thou shalt speak in the same
thing, if thou shalt agree the Lord Jesus and shalt believe
in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. You know, we can't muster up that belief on our
own that God raised him from the dead. And even when confronted with
him physically, it took a little extra divine work sometimes to
make that apparent. Thomas says, unless I can stick
my hand in the side and put my finger in the nail hole in his
hands, I'll not believe. And you know, Jesus made that
happen. He said, here I am. So, you know, I guess the point
we're making here is it's not a diagram speech, if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth. It's not a diagram speech in
order to obtain salvation, but it's clearly a speech designed
to glorify God and to acknowledge that salvation is of the Lord
and not of self. So our first word confessed then
is one of agreement, one of acknowledgement of the finished work of Christ
in salvation. Our second word then that we're
looking at here is one of contrast and of opposite outcomes. And
that word is deny in verse nine here in Luke chapter 12. He that
denieth me before men, but he that denieth me before men shall
be denied before the angels of God. And, uh, We can look to 1 John again,
chapter 2, in reference to that 1 John. Chapter 2 and verse 23, Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father. That's pretty plain, that's pretty
explicit. Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledge the Son,
that word, it's kind of the same word that we find, confess, agree,
acknowledge the work of the Son, hath the Father also. Let that
therefore abide in you. So let that, that's kind of like
that deal in Psalms where it says, Sela, think about that.
And so this word deny here, it's interesting that in verse nine,
this word denieth and denied are both used, but they're actually,
they're two different words. The core of them is the same,
but the before and the after part are slightly different. And denieth, is a serious word when
it deals with the Lord. I can't express to you how serious
this is. And it's the opposite of being
in agreement with Jesus. It's the opposite of acknowledging
Him. It's the opposite of speaking
the same thing. It's a word that means to contradict,
to disavow, to reject, abnegate. Refuse, deny. Boy, and you know,
that's where we all are in our unregenerate state. We're at
enmity with God and it takes the power of the Holy Spirit
to overcome that. So if we look at that, he that
contradicts me before men. That's a serious thing for us
to consider. If you contradict the word of the Lord, you contradict
Jesus. before men. That's serious matter. And the second part of that,
that person shall be denied before the angels of God. And that word,
it's slightly different, but it has the meaning of to deny
utterly, disown, and to affirm that one has no connection with
a person. He that denieth me, he that contradicts
me before men shall be affirmed that he has no connection with
us, with God. That's a serious thing to consider. Did this, you know, we see that
word used another place in the scripture. And you know, Peter,
we mentioned, I think earlier that Peter, he says, before the
cock crows twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. Did he deny him
in in agreement or acknowledgement or did he deny i don't know that
man so you know in in luke 22 61
says they all the disciples forsook him and fled so really this this
term in a physical sense is not an absolute spiritually to the
Lord's people because we're frail as dust. So are we
able to ascertain that one who denies Christ, who contradicts,
who rejects, who refuses and is in direct opposition to the
word of God, the result of that is utter and
complete denial of association or connection with God. One who contradicts who Christ
is, one who contradicts why he came, one who contradicts who
he came for, one who contradicts his efficacy in successfully
completing the covenant of grace with God the Father and God the
Holy Spirit. all three involved in in that
glorious work of the redemption of the church there and so It's
really a serious matter here to contradict the Lord In this
work and to say well it was it wasn't efficacious I have to
still do something or I can replace what he did with what I say or
what I do or by keeping the law or as we always say, filling out
this form or repeating after me, confessing with the Lord
with thy mouth and all these things that are physical in nature
and maybe don't have much to do with what's transpired within
their heart. The Lord says, I'm going to give
you a new heart. And when I do, you're gonna look
at yourself and say, oh man, you're gonna loathe yourself.
But, he says, I'm gonna take care of that too. So this one
that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of
God. You know, and if we ever get
to chapter 13 of Luke, in verse 27, he says, but he shall say, I tell you, I know you not, whence
you are. Depart from me, all you workers
of iniquity. The same thing is covered in
Matthew chapter 7 in that sermon there in Matthew 7. Think of this in terms of confessing
the Lord with your mouth. Not everyone that saith unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. But he
that doeth the will of my father which is heaven many will say
unto me in that day lord lord Have we not prophesied in thy
name didn't we say jesus jesus jesus all the time? Praise jesus
And jesus jesus jesus and not have we're like those whited
sepulchers that are just full of dead men's bones Have we not
prophesied in thy name and we just went out and just done all
these wonderful things. And in thy name cast out devils.
And in thy name done many wonderful works. And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you. I never knew you. And when God
Almighty says never, that's a really long time. That kind of has an
eternal aspect to it. I never knew you. And you can kind of look into
that in Romans and Ephesians Those who he foreknew before
the foundation were those whom he gave to the Son in the covenant
of grace He knew them So speaking a word against the Son of Man
it says in verse 10 Whoever shall speak a word against the Son
of Man it shall be forgiven him. I But unto him that blasphemeth
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. You know, speaking
a word against the Son of Man, this sin is forgivable, thank
God for that, because it's the state we're all in before the
new birth. We reject and refuse. We don't want nothing to do.
We're at enmity with him You hath he quickened who were dead
in trespasses and sins it goes on in Ephesians chapter 2 verse
1 through 3 Wherein in time past you walked according to the counsel
of this world according to the prince of the power of the air
The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in
the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others." There was no difference physically between us and anyone,
and the only difference is that eternal electing love, that God
decided to choose a people and pass over some sovereignly. We
can't know, other than according to His sovereign purpose and
will, why He chose some and others not. But we say, thank God if it wasn't
for that, we'd be just children of wrath, even as others. You
know that in Romans 8, 7, it says the carnal mind is enmity
against God. It's not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. And you know, by grace, God sees
beyond that enmity against him. He sees all the way through to
the blood of his son. to those whom He chose in Christ,
and did know from eternity, and drew to Himself, and the Holy
Spirit causing them to believe, relying totally on Christ for
salvation. Turn with me over to Colossians
chapter 2. Colossians 2.13 says, You, being
dead in your sins, And in the uncircumcision of
your flesh, that just means that we're still relying on that flesh
even though he's dead. They can't do a thing for us.
The flesh profiteth nothing. It's the spirit that quickeneth.
He says, you being dead in your sins in the uncircumcision of
your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven
you all trespasses. In verse 10, Then we have these
two verses, these two phrases that are linked together in meaning.
Whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man shall
be forgiven him, but whoso unto him that blasphemeth against
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. And again, we can
think about those, facing those accusers. But it's applicable
all the time. Whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man, forgiven by His people. That's been paid for. That's taken care of at the cross
there. But Him that blasphemeth, And
that word is a transliteration. It's just a Greek word that's
been anglicized into blaspheme. But against the Holy Ghost, that
will never be forgiven. And that's just, you know, we
talk about how serious this denying thing was. Well, this is really
serious. And it means, this word blaspheme,
is to vilify, to speak impiously, to defame, to rail on, to revile,
to speak evil, to vilify the Holy Spirit, to vilify the Holy
Ghost, to use abusive, defamatory speech about Him, to speak with
an intent of disrespect on purpose, to disrespect Him, to speak in
a scornful, humiliating fashion at the Holy Ghost in regards
to who He is and what His job is and His unity with the Trinity
and the Spirit the Father and the Son in the redemption of
the church. And so we look at a few words
here about the works performed by the Holy Spirit with respect
to the Lord God Almighty regarding the salvation of the elect. And
we'll look at some things that are recorded about the Holy Spirit
here. We have a few minutes left, but
we go all the way back to the beginning of the Bible, the books
of Moses into Genesis chapter 1 and we find it was the Spirit of
God. God created the heaven and the
earth and it was the Spirit of God who moved upon the face of
the waters of the creation when the world was without form. It was a waste. It was a desolation.
And it says it was without form and void. And that word void
means an empty ruin. And darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And that word darkness means
misery, death, destruction, ignorance, sorrow, and wickedness. What
a picture of our situation. You know, God created the world
He created it not in vain, it says in Isaiah, created it to
be inhabited, and yet we find this calamity here that's described
here. And what a picture of our condition
in the fall. Sin, death, destruction, ignorance,
sorrow, and wickedness. And you can look that up in Strong's
for those definitions. And then God said, and the Spirit
of God moved on the face of the waters. And then there was light. God said, let there be light. Genesis 1-3. So it was the Spirit
of God that moved in this case. And then we find in the New Testament,
it was the Spirit of God who moved on the holy men of old
and drove them to write down the very words that we just read
from Genesis chapter 1, verse 1 through 3. Holy men of old
spake as they were moved. by the Holy Ghost. He moved on
this condition. He moved on these men to record
it. And you know, Jesus said, search
the scriptures, these very scriptures that the Holy Spirit had caused
to be recorded regarding Jesus and the gospel. He said, search
the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of me. So they're not just a
story, they're not just a history lesson, they're not just to try
to satisfy some scientific, geological, longing to about creationism
or whatever and They're they're testifying to the grace of God
and salvation through the Son of God our Lord Jesus Christ
What what did he say to those two on the road to Emmaus and
Luke chapter 24? Oh fools and slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets spoke all that was recorded in
the Old Testament and Didn't you didn't any of that sink in?
He said ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to
enter into his glory and beginning at Moses and all the prophets
He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
himself. I just can't emphasize that enough
Beginning at Moses He expounded in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself. So whatever is written in It's
written for our admonition, for our edification. It concerns
Christ and it concerns the gospel and by His grace we're sometimes
able to see a glimpse into that. So that is one of the things
of the Holy Spirit, that He was involved in this creation and
in our situation with the Fall and He was involved in having
all these Holy men of old write these things down and all of
them concern Jesus. When the Comforter has come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify
of me. Isn't that what he's done here
in the Old Testament and in the new, holy men of old? wrote these
down, spoke of them. He's the Spirit of truth coming
from the Father. That's kind of an interesting
way we look at that too, in that in John 14, he says, I will pray
the Father. And I was reading a Spurgeon
sermon on that this morning. He says, there he is in his intercessory
capacity. praying the Father, that He will
send, and so then we see the Holy Spirit coming, and it says
here that He will send the Comforter, you
shall proceed from the Father, and He'll testify of me. I'll send you the, and he'll
comfort his people with that gospel. He'll comfort them with
the salvation and he'll comfort them with the knowledge that
it was salvation by grace alone and not of works. Comfort ye,
comfort ye my people from the book of Isaiah. Is that 43 one? I think it is. It says comfort
ye. not send a box of food to some
people over in Russia somewhere. Comfort them with the gospel
is what this is talking about. You know, it's the Spirit of
God that brings us the new birth, that moves in us to cause us
to believe the gospel of Christ dying for our sins. We don't
do that by ourselves. We believe according to the working
of His mighty power, and that Spirit of God exercises that
in us. Jesus said that Nicodemus in
John 3 Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
the wind bloweth where it listeth there in verse 8 and Thou hearest
the sound thereof But can't tell where it comes from or whether
it goeth. So is everyone that is born of
the Spirit, you know, you know, that's a It's an invisible thing. You can't see the wind and But
you can see the results of the wind. That the Spirit, He testifies
of Jesus, He brings the new birth. There's just so much that the
Holy Spirit is involved in. Volumes have been written about
that and we're over our time limit here already. 1 John chapter 5 verse 5 through
8 it says, Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believeth
that Jesus is the Son of God? He confesses that. He acknowledges
that. He agrees with that. And it is
the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost. These three are one. There are
three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, the water, and the
blood, and these three agree on one. So it's that spirit of
truth that causes us to speak the same thing, to speak the
same gospel, to speak the same thing as the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God. In 1 John 4-2, every spirit that
confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is of God. You know,
why did he come in the flesh? He came to save his people from
his sins. He says, I came to lay down my
life for my friends. So, you know, the ones that, contradict
this, the ones that fail to acknowledge this, they just can speak of
the world because that's all they know, and we are of God,
and we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error in 1
John 4, 6. So, you know, a lot of people worry
about this, oh I hope I don't do the unpardonable sin. or in
all those things that are kind of associated with that. So I
think this makes it clear the relationship that we have. If
we believe that God saved us by His grace, if we believe that
Jesus came and dwelt among us and died on the cross for our
sins, then we are not contradicting, we're not blaspheming the Holy
Spirit by denying all that, by denying the work that that He
is involved in by denying the written testimony of Christ in
the Old Testament and in the New. And we rely on Him totally
for our salvation. Then we're not subject to that. Unto Him that's able to keep
you from falling and present you faultless. before the presence
of His glory with exceeding joy." What a blessing that is. And so, kind of in summary, If
we deny him, we're just denying. We're contradicting the gospel. We are rejecting the true gospel
and substituting some other thing, as Paul said to the Galatians.
I marvel that you're so soon removed from the gospel of grace
to another gospel that's not even another gospel. You're rejecting that. So, confessing,
denying, blaspheming, I hope that all makes better sense to
us now, and we can praise the Lord that what He demands, He
supplies, and He does that in His people, and thank God for
that. So, until next time when we'll
look at Take no thought for what you shall say when you're brought
before the magistrates and people. Maybe take a little more look
at that in verse 11 and 12. So until the next time, thank
for attention and be free.